Manifesto for Truth and Historical Dignity. The public request for access to the Sinaia Tablets

To: the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology | the Romanian Academy | the National Museum of Romanian History | the Ministry of Culture

PREAMBLE

The Sinaia Tablets are a set of controversial, potentially unique artefacts which, if authentic, could significantly rewrite the ancient history of the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space. According to the testimonies presented by the engineer Dan Romalo in his volume “Cronică getă apocrifă pe plăci de plumb?”, these tablets would be lead copies of gold originals, mysteriously melted down in the nineteenth century. However, despite constant public interest and isolated academic signals, these artefacts are kept away from free research and from the eyes of the public.

This lack of transparency is not only regrettable, but deeply suspicious. The tablets are stored in basements, not displayed, ignored by the official institutions, while the history of the Dacian people continues to be presented exclusively through the eyes of its victors: the Romans.

We, conscious citizens, historians, independent researchers and lovers of truth, consider this inaction a serious form of institutional censorship. It is unacceptable that in a democratic society, based on access to information and academic freedom, such artefacts should be kept hidden indefinitely.

By this request, we are NOT asking for a privilege, but we are exercising a fundamental right: the right to know the truth about our own past. Failure to act will be interpreted not as negligence, but as a silent complicity in the concealment of evidence of major national interest.

If these tablets are indeed forgeries, then it is all the more imperative that they be displayed and analysed publicly. To hide a forgery is an academic nonsense. A forgery is exposed through transparency, not through isolation. Only through open research can their falsity be confirmed — and the systematic refusal to investigate them seriously is, in itself, a suspicious act.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTIONS (AS THE MANIFESTO SEES THEM)

The manifesto argues the following. The Dacian language is declared “unknown”, yet the tablets are rejected because they do not “correspond” to it. How can a text be rejected on the basis of a language whose structure is not known? That means rejection out of dogma, not out of science.

The tablets are made of lead, but there are testimonies that they are copies of gold ones. To reject the authenticity of a copy only because of the material is equivalent to throwing away a photocopy of an old manuscript because the paper is new.

Rome did not manage to impose Latin fully even in ancient Italy, yet it has been assumed that it managed to do so in Dacia in only 165 years. It is a historical paradox deliberately ignored by the official historians. In Britain, 300 years of Roman occupation did not lead to a lasting linguistic Romanisation.

The peoples contemporary with the Dacians had writing systems, a fact documented archaeologically and historically. The Etruscans had an alphabet of their own derived from the Greek one, the Celts left Ogham inscriptions, the Phoenicians and the Iberians used an adapted Semitic script, and the Greeks and the Egyptians had written traditions thousands of years old. Herodotus and Strabo give accounts of the culture and customs of the Thracians, which implies the existence of a cultural organisation sophisticated enough to include a writing system as well, even if it has not survived to this day in its original form.. The Etruscans, the Celts, the Phoenicians, the Iberians, the Greeks and the Egyptians all had developed forms of written communication. Even in tribal areas of Europe there were rudimentary forms of writing. To assume that only the Dacians, among all their neighbours, had no form of written expression is an act of cultural denial, not a scientific conclusion. This assumption ignores the spiritual, religious and social complexity of a civilisation that had temples, astronomical sanctuaries, stratified social structures and a possibly monotheistic religion.

The fact that the tablets are not displayed and not analysed transparently indicates, not a lack of value, but fear. Fear that, once authenticated, they will force a complete rewriting of the history textbooks and of the national identity built on official myths.

The texts contain a coherent grammar, morphological repetitions, according to the preliminary observations of the researcher Dan Romalo in his volume “Cronică getă apocrifă pe plăci de plumb?”, and to the symbolic analyses supported by the researcher Aurora Petan, who noted suggestive morphosyntactic constants and lexical repetitions within the inscriptions, as well as recurring symbolic elements and a narrative structure. If they are “forgeries”, they are the most sophisticated forgeries in the world. Who would have created them, for what purpose, and why would they then have been hidden? Forgers do not hide their “masterpieces”.

WHAT WE ASK FOR THROUGH THIS MANIFESTO

1. A complete public inventory of all the tablets, with dating, high-quality photographs, technical description and exact location.
2. Complete digitisation and making them available to the general public and to the international scientific community through transparent and accessible platforms.
3. The setting up of an independent, international scientific commission, with specialists from fields such as comparative linguistics, archaeology, history, cryptology, atomic physics and sacred symbolism.
4. The organisation of a permanent or travelling public exhibition, which would include the tablets, parallel interpretations and open hypotheses, without an ideological monopoly.
5. The drawing up and publication of an official, complete and neutral report, including all the results of the analyses, with the complete annexes.

WHY IS THIS ESSENTIAL?

Because historical truth is not negotiable. Because the Dacians must not be treated as a barbarian parenthesis in the history of Europe, but as a civilisation with depth, which wrote its history with its own hand – and was then reduced to silence by the pen of the victors.

Because history does not belong to those who win wars, but to those who have the courage to research it, even when the truth is not comfortable.
“Truth does not have to be comfortable. It has to be accessible.”

This is the principle we defend.

We sign this manifesto in the name of memory, of civic courage and of a moral duty towards the truth. The Dacians are not the past, they are still waiting to be rediscovered.

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

This manifesto is written on the basis of a logical, comparative and documentary analysis, using primary and secondary sources from the fields of history, archaeology, linguistics and symbolic hermeneutics. The references include works by ancient authors (Herodotus, Strabo), contemporary researchers (Dan Romalo, Aurora Petan), as well as historical-linguistic comparisons between different regions of the Roman Empire. The aim is to formulate a legitimate, coherent and scientifically supported request, in full respect of the standards of academic research.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Romalo, Dan. Cronică getă apocrifă pe plăci de plumb? (An apocryphal Getic chronicle on lead plates?) București: Ed. Dacica, 2003.
Petan, Aurora. Works and articles on the Sinaia Tablets, published within the Institute of Linguistics “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”.
Herodotus. Histories (Book IV: the Geto-Dacians).
Strabo. Geography, Book VII.
Russu, Ioan I. Limba traco-dacilor (The language of the Thraco-Dacians). București: Ed. Științifică, 1967.
Florescu, Radu. The Lost Treasure of the Dacians. New York: Arno Press, 1980.